Randy zoo ape tries to mate with Tom Jones

The Voice star says he was so irresistible at his pop peak that even caged animals wanted to bed him

I went up to the cage and he was pouting at me. He put one arm on me, then with its foot it tried to drag me into the cage

The Voice coach Sir Tom Jones

The Voice star says he was so irresistible at his pop peak that even caged animals wanted to bed him.

Sir Tom confessed: “My manager used to have a zoo in his back garden and he used to keep all these different kinds of animals there.

“I went there and he had this orangutan. It was sexy, if you know what I mean!

“I went up to the cage and he was pouting at me. He put one arm on me, then with its foot it tried to drag me into the cage.

“I almost thought I’d had it!”

The 72-year-old, who famously has knickers thrown at him by female fans during his stage shows, also revealed on comic Rob Brydon’s BBC chat show that he also came face-to-face with the same manager’s tiger.

Sir Tom said: “He said I should go into the cage and have some photos taken with it as the tiger liked to jump up and put his paws on you.

“But the tiger just stared at us, then turned and knocked the photographer over and had his head in his paws. It was terrifying.”

The It’s Not Unusual hitmaker told Rob, 47: “I was holding on to my manager like a shield thinking: ‘If he comes for me then you are going to get it!’”